THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with NEIL DIAMOND! There are two types of people, you know.  But here's Neil on the Beeb in 1971.  Your set list: "Sweet Caroline," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Done Too Soon," "A Modern Day Version Of Love," "He Aint' Heavy (He's My Brother)," "Holly Holy," and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show."  Sadly, "I Am I Said" is off the Tube right now, but here's a contemporaneous German clip.

JAPANDROIDS advance stream Near to the Wild Heart of Life.

TIFT MERRITT advance streams Stitch of the World.

ALLISON CRUTHCHFIELD advance streams Tourist in This Town.

PRIESTS advance stream Nothing Feels Natural.

BASH & POP: Tommy Stinson's band returns with "Anything Could Happen."

RYAN ADAMS shares "Doomsday" ahead of Prisoner.

CLOUD NOTHINGS share "Enter Entirely" ahead of Life Without Sound.

DOBIE GRAY is in with "The In Crowd."

TY SEGALL on Black Flag, T Rex and why the Kinks made so much sense in 90s California.

ALANIS MORISETTE's former business manager has admitted embezzling more than 7MM from the singer and other celebrities and agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, prosecutors have said.

GREIL MARCUS on the musical odes of sci-fi films Passengers and Arrival, Christian Marclay’s slippery sonic sculptures, Sleater-Kinney’s live album, the secret of Jack White's success, and more. 

THE BEACH BOYS' FIRST DECADE, surveyed by the incomparable Jeff Blehar.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases include: xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, which is currently scoring 60 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Split, which is coring 78 percent; The Founder, scoring 83 percent; and The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, which was not screened for critics.

THE MONICA LEWINSKY SAGA may be the next People vs OJ Simpson.

MARK HAMILL is taking a little time out to voice an animated Lovecraft feature.

BLACK ADAM: After announcing plans to make a Shazam movie with Dwayne Johnson attached to play the antagonist Black Adam, New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment have now decided to expand the property with a second film.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 has a clip online.

LOGAN has a second trailer online.

POWER RANGERS has a new trailer online.

POWERLESS has a trailer online.

MIGUEL FERRER, character and voice actor who appeared in shows including Twin Peaks, NCIS: Los Angeles and Crossing Jordan, and films including RoboCop and Iron Man 3, died Thursday of cancer. He was 61.

A COW was 'mooved' out of a swimming pool in southeast Oklahoma City.

THE SWARM: A Florida man with an unusual wasp removal technique recorded himself taking out an entire nest of the stinging insects with his bare hands.

HORSES are more deadly than snakes in Australia.

BACTERIA  are being reprogrammed to eat brain tumors, in case you're wondering how the zombie apocalypse starts.